Written By Lexx Thornton In celebration of International Day of the Girl, former First Lady and founder of The Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance, Michelle Obama, announced a significant new commitment to support organizations dedicated to educating and empowering adolescent girls worldwide. The Girls Opportunity Alliance will provide a total of $2.5 million to 54
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Written By Lexx Thornton The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recently announced the election of Andrea Hayes Dixon, M.D., FACS, dean and senior vice president of health affairs at Howard University College of Medicine, as one of its newest members. According to NAM, membership in the organization “is considered one of the highest honors in
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Written By Lexx Thornton With the Federal Government mired in a contentious shutdown, the stakes for this year’s midterm elections have reached a critical high—and early voting is happening now in many states. This is a crucial period when every voice must be heard to determine the future course of Congress. A government shutdown throws
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By Sahil Kapur, Scott Wong and Monica Alba As the government shutdown crosses the three-week mark, Democrats are increasingly calling on President Donald Trump to get more involved in finding a solution. And some Republicans acknowledge that Trump has been disengaged and say it wouldn’t hurt if he got more involved. “Hakeem and I reached out to the president today
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South Carolina lawmakers have launched the state’s first bipartisan HBCU Caucus to support its eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The caucus was announced Tuesday during a meeting in Columbia. Lawmakers from both parties joined leaders from each of the state’s HBCUs to address challenges such as underfunding, infrastructure needs, and student support. Legislators in
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By Lawrence Hurley The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared open to again undermining the Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana. The justices, who expanded the scope of the case over the summer, heard oral arguments about whether states can ever consider race in drawing new districts while seeking to comply with Section 2 of
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By Gabe Gutierrez, Monica Alba, Peter Alexander and Dareh Gregorian The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials. The demolition is a significant expansion of the ballroom construction project from what President Donald Trump said this summer. “It won’t interfere with the current building,” Trump said on July 31. “It’ll be near
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Courtesy of North Carolina Central University N.C. Central University’s online program was ranked No.3 by Forbes magazine among all HBCUs this past June, as NCCU continued its push towards increasing its overall enrollment through online enrollment. Forbes attributed its high ranking of NCCU’s online program to its high retention rate of 75%, low in-state tuition and advantageous location in the
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Grambling State University will commemorate 124 years of legacy, leadership, and learning with its annual Founder’s Celebration on Thursday, October 30, at 10 a.m. in the Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center. The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Melva K. Wallace, seventh president and chief executive officer of Huston–Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. The
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By Scott Wong and Kyle Stewart Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to try to force House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who won her late father’s seat in a special election nearly one month ago. Johnson, R-La., has said he will seat Grijalva once Senate Democrats agree
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